Erlangen Valency Patternbank BETA

— a corpus-based research tool for work on valency and argument structure constructions

List patterns

• active verb patterns
• passive verb patterns
• adjective patterns
• noun patterns

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Active patterns:

SCU + VHC_act + over_NP

Passive patterns:

NP + VHC_pass + over | (+ by_phrase) with verbs marked in yellow

argue (A dispute) - argue (B discuss) - come (F SURPRISE) - cry (A … tears) - descend (A go down) - descend (B silence …) - fight - get (special use 15) - get (special use 16) - get (special use 17) - go (idiomatic phrasal verb) - grieve - hang (B problem …) - laugh - protest - quarrel - rule (A govern) - smile - stand (special use 24) - unite - walk (special use 5) - watch (B … health) - worry